The Price of Defiance in Russia

Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, Moscow, Russia, November 14, 2023. © 2023 Hannah Wagner/picture-alliance-dpa/AP Photo Amid the Kremlin's vicious drive to eliminate dissent, last week brought two disturbing new developments in the prosecution of Oleg Orlov, cochair of leading Russian human rights organization Memorial. The case against him, on criminal charges of "repeated discreditation" of Russia's armed forces, had been sent for retrial last autumn. The prosecution inf...